Posted on 08/08/2010 4:25:07 AM PDT by decimon
I have no grave site to visit, no place to bring my mother her favorite yellow flowers, no spot where I can hold my weary heart close to her. All I have is Ground Zero.
On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, I watched as terrorists slammed United Flight 175 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, 18 minutes after their accomplices on another hijacked plane hit the North Tower. My mother was on the flight. I witnessed her murder on live television. I still cannot fully comprehend those images. In that moment, I died as well. I carry a hole in my heart that will never be filled.
From the first memorial ceremonies I attended at Ground Zero, I have always been moved by the site; it means something to be close to where my mother may be buried, it brings some peace. That is why the prospect of a mosque near Ground Zero -- or a church or a synagogue or any religious or nationalistic monument or symbol -- troubles me.
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...I fear it would become a symbol of victory for militant Muslims around the world.
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Oddly enough, she is also against ANY religious or “nationalistic” symbols there. Maybe she is saying it so she doesn’t get killed?
I take that to mean the tragedy of the thing shouldn't be exploited for any extraneous purpose.
Why, most certainly it would!
Why have the Muslims chosen this particular site...?
The building of this victory mosque on this site substantiates the position of the Islamic militants by rekindling the prophecies of Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. That America is nothing more than a paper tiger, bloodied with the guilt of imperialism and inescapably tainted by an anti-Islamic history. It is this symbolically violent imagery that Islam’s fundamentalist orators will use to radicalize a new contingent of militants from the ranks of Islam’s moderates. Individuals who are mesmerized by the phantasmagorical image of this mega mosque being built on the site of 9/11 and who will see it as a sign of America’s impending submission and our nation’s acquiescence to the superiority of Islam.
They could have picked anywhere to build this mosque but... then it would not serve it’s purpose.
Trinity Church and cemetery is more a heritage site than anything else.
“Heck yes! They can build their mosque some where else! “
Yes, like Pakistan or Saudi Arabia!
If we deport them all we won’t have this controversy.
I watched just now. Can hardly see or breathe through my tears and broken heart.
And we have a president who ‘understands’ how this could have happened.
We have a NYC Mayor who is so craven he condones a mosque at the site, in the name of all that is evil, in my opinion.
Yes, we forgot that day already.
Not much rebuilt at that site, nothing but vile attacks on Mayor Giuliani as thanks for his endless days of making sure NYC held together in the aftermath.
America has forgotten. SHAME SHAME SHAME
We who have not forgotten need to stand up. STAND UP
Moslems qua Moslems hold no respect for cemeteries. Once one is dead he is interred as quickly as possible and there may or may not be a marker. Then he is forgotten and graveyards can be built over with no preliminary discussion or regret or resentment. The dead body is merely trash.
Egalitarianism is evil
Too many, even here on FR, forgot already.
Forgot President Bush’s resolve, his efforts to bring the murdering scum to justice. All the while Eric Holder and his ilk were working to protect the islamic jihadists from us, US.
These scum are here in our midst working to destroy every last bit of America. We have a political party, D , determined to excuse those who hate us. Embrace the terrorists and their evil ways.
Obama, and Bloomberg are on the side of the terrorists.
It’s still a church. Didn’t a priest from that church die helping people on 9/11? Am I remembering correctly?
And now that I think about it, I don't recall Mayor Bloomberg making a stink about al-Megrahi's release.
Go figger.
You'll probably recall seeing the picture shown at the link.
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